Congressional Testimony
Accomplice to Cartel Crime:
How Biden and Mayorkas’ Open Border Has Advanced Cartel Crime
Statement of Jessica M. Vaughan before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security
Excerpt:The mass migration crisis instigated by the Biden administration’s misguided immigration policies has caused incalculable harm to American communities, to the integrity of our immigration system, and, tragically, to many of the migrants themselves. While there are a number of beneficiaries of these policies, including employers seeking cheap, exploitable workers; NGOs who are awarded huge contracts to provide services to migrants; and politicians who welcome the addition of non-citizen constituents to their districts, to name a few, the biggest winners under the Biden-Mayorkas policies are the criminal cartels and other transnational criminal organizations who are reaping profits on a nearly unimaginable scale.
Link to full written testimony
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Report
Rio Grande-Gate
Are Biden administration officials deliberately engaged in alien smuggling and are they subject to criminal prosecution?
By George Fishman
July 17, 2023
Excerpt: The acts at the heart of these shocking allegations (if proven) would seemingly constitute criminal violations of the federal anti-alien-smuggling law, violations that carry with them potential punishment from a fine or one year’s imprisonment to life imprisonment or even the death penalty.
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Journal Article
California Dreamin': Can State Universities Legally Hire Non-Work Authorized Aliens
By George Fishman
Journal of College and University Law, Vol. 48, No. 1
Excerpt: A notable group of immigration law professors has assured California that it can allow its state universities to hire aliens not authorized to work under federal law, concluding that the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986’s “prohibition on hiring undocumented
persons [known as employer sanctions] does not bind state government entities”. I conclude that the professors’ first argument is incorrect.
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Commentary
Texas vs. Biden — State Fights to Enforce Border, as White House Waves in Illegal Migrants
By Todd Bensman
New York Post, July 18, 2023
Excerpt: Every day, they wade down the Rio Grande, probing the shores for a break in the razor wire now strung along the shore. Illegal migrants by the thousands, looking for the chance to dash across the border.
Mayorkas Flouts Congress, Invents More ‘Legal’ Immigration Pathways
By Jason Richwine
National Review, July 18, 2023
Excerpt: Earlier this month the Department of Homeland Security under Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas introduced additional “family reunification parole” programs, which allow certain foreign nationals with relatives in the U.S. to come here immediately rather than wait for a family-based immigrant visa. It’s yet another lawless action taken under the guise of promoting legal immigration.
Out on Parole: Biden’s New Immigration Plan Won’t Work
By Don Barnett
Washington Times, July 12, 2023
Excerpt: The administration has revamped U.S. immigration without legislation and handed Congress a fait accompli. It is no longer about who should be let in and who should be kept out. It is about getting one giant step closer to open borders.
Big Tech's Optional Practical Training Program Betrays Young and Old
By Joseph Maurer
Washington Examiner, July 14, 2023
Excerpt: A program that undermines wages, steals from your grandparents, and actively dims the prospects of American college students- only an alliance of Silicon Valley excess and administrative insanity could come up with something so backwards.
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Podcast
Texas DPS Defends the Border; CBP Helps Migrants Enter
Host: Mark Krikorian
Guest:Todd Bensman, Senior National Security Fellow, CIS
Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 11
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Featured Posts
Search and Rescue Stats Highlight Humanitarian Disaster at the Border
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: The Biden administration touts the border as “safe, orderly, and humane”, but the agency’s search and rescue statistics tell a much darker story, which you can read thanks to an internet archive called the “Wayback Machine”.
Under What Circumstances Does a State Government Get a Financial Reward when an Alien Receives a Green Card?
By David North
Excerpt: State governments are usually losers when it comes to immigration matters; they routinely have to pick up substantial educational, welfare, and healthcare costs for low-income migrants, legal and illegal. But in one highly specialized case, one state government stands to obtain $62,500 for each set of green cards issued to one of a set of families suing it. That’s a total of $4 million. What’s going on?
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Stunning DHS Disclosure Reveals How Screwed Up Biden’s Release Policies Are
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: If DHS can’t even get its handling of this tiny population of high-profile illegal entrants right — and by “right” I mean anywhere near what the INA requires — what must it be doing with respect to the two million-plus other aliens it has released under the Biden administration?
‘Biden’s Border Funnel’ for Illegal Migrants Pushes SW Border Port Encounters to a New Record in June
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: The sooner the American people and their representatives realize the Biden administration is playing a shell game at the Southwest border using various illegal schemes and programs to hide the actual number of illegal migrants it is allowing into the United States, the better.
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A new Center for Immigration Studies video report highlights Texas Governor Abbott’s “Operation Hold the Line”, which has state police and National Guard block immigrants at the Rio Grande River’s edge, and President Biden’s undermining of the state’s efforts to enforce the laws.
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